Legacy filename extensions denote binary Microsoft Word formating that became outdated with the release of Microsoft Office 2007. Although the latest version of Microsoft Word can still open them, they are no longer developed. Legacy filename extensions include:

Legacy filename extensions denote binary Microsoft Excel formats that became oudated with the release of Microsoft Office 2007. Although the latest version of Microsoft Excel can still open them, they are no longer developed. Legacy filename extensions include:

ACCDB – The file extension for the new Office Access 2007 file format. This takes the place of the MDB file extension.

ACCDE – The file extension for Office Access 2007 files that are in "execute only" mode. ACCDE files have all Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) source code hidden. A user of an ACCDE file can only execute VBA code, but not view or modify it. ACCDE takes the place of the MDE file extension.

ACCDT – The file extension for Access Database Templates.

ACCDR – is a new file extension that enables you to open a database in runtime mode. By simply changing a database's file extension from .accdb to .accdr, you can create a "locked-down" version of your Office Access database. You can change the file extension back to .accdb to restore full functionality.

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Microsoft Office
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Microsoft Office is an office suite of applications, servers, and services developed by Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on 1 August 1988, initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Over the years, Office applications have grown substantially closer with shared features such as a spell checker, OLE data integration. Microsoft also positions Office as a development platform for software under the Office Business Applications brand. On 10 July 2012, Softpedia reported that Office is used by over a billion people worldwide, Office is produced in several versions targeted towards different end-users and computing environments. The original, and most widely used version, is the version, available for PCs running the Windows. The most current desktop version is Office 2016 for Windows and macOS, released on 22 September 2015 and 9 July 2015, more recently, Microsoft developed Office Mobile, which are free-to-use versions of Office applications for mobile devices. Microsoft also produces and runs Office Online, a version of core Office apps. Microsoft Word is a word processor available for Windows and macOS, Word is also included in some editions of the now discontinued Microsoft Works. The first version of Word, released in the autumn of 1983, was for the MS-DOS operating system and had the distinction of introducing the mouse to a broad population, Word 1.0 could be purchased with a bundled mouse, though none was required. Following the precedents of LisaWrite and MacWrite, Word for Macintosh attempted to add closer WYSIWYG features into its package, Word for Mac was released in 1985. Word for Mac was the first graphical version of Microsoft Word and its proprietary Doc format is a de facto standard, although Word 2007 deprecated this format in favor of Office Open XML, which was later standardized by Ecma International as an open format. Support for Portable Document Format and OpenDocument was first introduced in Word for Windows with Service Pack 2 for Word 2007, Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program that originally competed with the dominant Lotus 1-2-3, and eventually outsold it. It is available for the Windows and macOS platforms, Microsoft released the first version of Excel for the Mac OS in 1985, and the first Windows version in November 1987. Microsoft PowerPoint is a program for Windows and macOS. It is used to create slideshows, composed of text, graphics, and other objects, Microsoft Access is a database management system for Windows that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools. Microsoft Access stores data in its own based on the Access Jet Database Engine. It can also import or link directly to data stored in other applications, Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager

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Software
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Computer software, or simply software, is that part of a computer system that consists of data or computer instructions, in contrast to the physical hardware from which the system is built. In computer science and software engineering, computer software is all information processed by computer systems, programs, computer software includes computer programs, libraries and related non-executable data, such as online documentation or digital media. Computer hardware and software require each other and neither can be used on its own. At the lowest level, executable code consists of machine language instructions specific to an individual processor—typically a central processing unit, a machine language consists of groups of binary values signifying processor instructions that change the state of the computer from its preceding state. For example, an instruction may change the value stored in a storage location in the computer—an effect that is not directly observable to the user. An instruction may also cause something to appear on a display of the computer system—a state change which should be visible to the user. The processor carries out the instructions in the order they are provided, unless it is instructed to jump to a different instruction, the majority of software is written in high-level programming languages that are easier and more efficient for programmers, meaning closer to a natural language. High-level languages are translated into machine language using a compiler or an interpreter or a combination of the two, an outline for what would have been the first piece of software was written by Ada Lovelace in the 19th century, for the planned Analytical Engine. However, neither the Analytical Engine nor any software for it were ever created, the first theory about software—prior to creation of computers as we know them today—was proposed by Alan Turing in his 1935 essay Computable numbers with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem. This eventually led to the creation of the academic fields of computer science and software engineering. Computer science is more theoretical, whereas software engineering focuses on practical concerns. However, prior to 1946, software as we now understand it—programs stored in the memory of stored-program digital computers—did not yet exist, the first electronic computing devices were instead rewired in order to reprogram them. On virtually all platforms, software can be grouped into a few broad categories. There are many different types of software, because the range of tasks that can be performed with a modern computer is so large—see list of software. System software includes, Operating systems, which are collections of software that manage resources and provides common services for other software that runs on top of them. Supervisory programs, boot loaders, shells and window systems are parts of operating systems. In practice, an operating system bundled with additional software so that a user can potentially do some work with a computer that only has an operating system. Device drivers, which operate or control a particular type of device that is attached to a computer, utilities, which are computer programs designed to assist users in the maintenance and care of their computers

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Office suite
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Its names arose from the fact that it increases productivity, especially of individual office workers, from typists to knowledge workers, although its scope is now wider than that. Office suites, which word processing, spreadsheet, and relational database programs to the desktop in the 1980s, are the core example of productivity software. Some 78% of middle-skill occupations now require the use of productivity software, in the 2010s, productivity software has become even more consumerized than it already was, as computing becomes ever more integrated into daily personal life. Productivity software traditionally run directly on a computer, for example, Commodore Plus/4 model of computer contained in ROM four applications of productivity software. Productivity software is one of the people use personal computers. Productivity software help the professional or common user to enhance and complete their tasks, an office suite is a collection of bundled productivity software intended to be used by knowledge workers. The components are generally distributed together, have a consistent user interface and usually can interact with each other, the earliest office suite for personal computers was Starburst in the early 1980s, comprising the word processor WordStar, together with companion apps CalcStar and DataStar. Various other suites arose in the 1980s, and over the course of the 1990s Microsoft Office came to dominate the market, existing office suites contain wide range of various components

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Microsoft Word
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Microsoft Word is a word processor developed by Microsoft. It was first released on October 25,1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems, commercial versions of Word are licensed as a standalone product or as a component of Microsoft Office, Windows RT or the discontinued Microsoft Works suite. Microsoft Word Viewer and Office Online are freeware editions of Word with limited features, in 1981, Microsoft hired Charles Simonyi, the primary developer of Bravo, the first GUI word processor, which was developed at Xerox PARC. Simonyi started work on a word processor called Multi-Tool Word and soon hired Richard Brodie, a former Xerox intern, Microsoft announced Multi-Tool Word for Xenix and MS-DOS in 1983. Its name was simplified to Microsoft Word. Free demonstration copies of the application were bundled with the November 1983 issue of PC World and that year Microsoft demonstrated Word running on Windows. Unlike most MS-DOS programs at the time, Microsoft Word was designed to be used with a mouse and it was not initially popular, since its user interface was different from the leading word processor at the time, WordStar. However, Microsoft steadily improved the product, releasing versions 2.0 through 5.0 over the six years. In 1985, Microsoft ported Word to Mac OS and this was made easier by Word for DOS having been designed for use with high-resolution displays and laser printers, even though none were yet available to the general public. Following the precedents of LisaWrite and MacWrite, Word for Mac OS added true WYSIWYG features and it fulfilled a need for a word processor that was more capable than MacWrite. After its release, Word for Mac OSs sales were higher than its MS-DOS counterpart for at least four years, Word 3.0 included numerous internal enhancements and new features, including the first implementation of the Rich Text Format specification, but was plagued with bugs. Within a few months, Word 3.0 was superseded by a more stable Word 3.01, after MacWrite Pro was discontinued in the mid-1990s, Word for Mac OS never had any serious rivals. Word 5.1 for Mac OS, released in 1992, was a popular word processor owing to its elegance, relative ease of use. Many users say it is the best version of Word for Mac OS ever created, in 1986, an agreement between Atari and Microsoft brought Word to the Atari ST under the name Microsoft Write. The Atari ST version was a port of Word 1.05 for the Mac OS and was never updated due to the degree of software piracy on the Atari platform. The first version of Word for Windows was released in 1989, with the release of Windows 3.0 the following year, sales began to pick up and Microsoft soon became the market leader for word processors for IBM PC-compatible computers. When Microsoft became aware of the Year 2000 problem, it made Microsoft Word 5.5 for DOS available for download free, as of March 2014, it is still available for download from Microsofts web site. In 1991, Microsoft embarked on a project code-named Pyramid to completely rewrite Microsoft Word from the ground up, both the Windows and Mac OS versions would start from the same code base

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Microsoft Office 2007
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Microsoft Office 2007 is a version of Microsoft Office, a family of office suites and productivity software for Windows, developed and published by Microsoft. It was preceded by Office 2003 and succeeded by Office 2010, Office 2007 introduced a new graphical user interface called the Fluent User Interface, which uses ribbons and an Office menu instead of menu bars and toolbars. Office 2007 also introduced Office Open XML file formats as the file formats in Excel, PowerPoint. The new formats are intended to facilitate the sharing of information between programs, improve security, reduce the size of documents, and enable new recovery scenarios. With Microsoft FrontPage discontinued, Microsoft SharePoint Designer, which is aimed towards development of SharePoint portals and its designer-oriented counterpart, Microsoft Expression Web, is targeted for general web development. However, neither application has been included in Office 2007 software suites, Speech recognition functionality has been removed from the individual programs in the Office 2007 suite, as Windows Speech Recognition was integrated into Windows Vista. Windows XP users must install a version of Office to use speech recognition features. According to Forrester Research, as of May 2010, Microsoft Office 2007 is used in 81% of enterprises it surveyed, the first beta of Microsoft Office 2007, referred to as Beta-1 in emails sent to a small number of testers, was released on November 16,2005. The Beta-1 Technical Refresh was released to testers on March 13,2006, the Technical Refresh fixed issues in installing with Windows Vista build 5308. Microsoft revealed the ribbon on March 9,2006 at CeBIT in Germany, Office 2007 Beta 2 was announced by Bill Gates at WinHEC2006, and was initially released to the public at no cost from Microsofts web site. However, because of a number of downloads, a fee of $1.50 was introduced for each product downloaded after August 2,2006. The beta was updated on September 14,2006 in Beta 2 Technical Refresh and it included an updated user interface, better accessibility support, improvements in the robustness of the platform, and greater functionality. The beta versions continued to function in a reduced functionality mode after February 1,2007, if users downloaded the Technical Refresh to update Beta 2, then users could use its full functionality until March 31,2007 for client products and May 15,2007 for server products. The Beta program ended on November 8,2006, when Microsoft declared the product Released to Manufacturing, after RTM, the availability of the beta download ended. Office 2007 was released to volume licensing customers on November 30,2006, since the initial release of Microsoft Office 2007, three service packs containing updates as well as additional features have been released. Microsoft Office 2007 Service Packs are cumulative, so previous Service Packs are not a prerequisite for installation, Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 1 was released on December 11,2007. Official documentation claims that SP1 is not simply a rollup of publicly released patches, Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released on April 28,2009. It added improved support for ODF, XPS and PDF standards, Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3 was released on October 25,2011

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Office Open XML
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Office Open XML is a zipped, XML-based file format developed by Microsoft for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. The format was initially standardised by Ecma, and by the ISO, starting with Microsoft Office 2007, the Office Open XML file formats have become the default target file format of Microsoft Office. Microsoft Office 2010 provides read support for ECMA-376, read/write support for ISO/IEC29500 Transitional, Microsoft Office 2013 and Microsoft Office 2016 additionally support both reading and writing of ISO/IEC29500 Strict. In 2000, Microsoft released a version of an XML-based format for Microsoft Excel. In 2002, a new format for Microsoft Word followed. The Excel and Word formats—known as the Microsoft Office XML formats—were later incorporated into the 2003 release of Microsoft Office, Microsoft announced in November 2005 that it would co-sponsor standardization of the new version of their XML-based formats through Ecma International as Office Open XML. The presentation was made to Ecma by Microsofts Jean Paoli and Isabelle Valet-Harper, Microsoft submitted initial material to Ecma International Technical Committee TC45, where it was standardized to become ECMA-376, approved in December 2006. This standard was then fast-tracked in the Joint Technical Committee 1 of ISO, the resulting four-part International Standard was published in November 2008 and can be downloaded from the ITTF. A technically equivalent set of texts is published by Ecma as ECMA-376 Office Open XML File Formats — 2nd edition, the ISO standardization of Office Open XML was controversial and embittered, with much discussion both about the specification and about the standardization process. The same InfoWorld article reported that IBM threatened to leave standards bodies that it said allow dominant corporations like Microsoft to wield undue influence, richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation has stated that Microsoft offers a gratis patent license for OOXML on terms which do not allow free implementations. Microsoft, the contributor to the standard, provided a covenant not to sue for its patent licensing. The covenant received a reception, with some like the Groklaw blog criticizing it. The Open Specification Promise was included in documents submitted to ISO/IEC in support of the ECMA-376 fast-track submission, Ecma International asserted that, The OSP enables both open source and commercial software to implement. The Office Open XML specification exists in a number of versions, the ECMA standard is structured in five parts to meet the needs of different audiences. Open Packaging Conventions The Open Packaging Conventions, for the package model and it defines core properties, thumbnails, digital signatures, and authorizations & encryption capabilities for parts or all of the contents in the package. XML schemas for the OPC are declared as XML Schema Definitions, markup Compatibility and Extensibility Describes extension facilities of OpenXML documents and specifies elements & attributes through which applications can operate across different extensions. Later versions of the ECMA-376 standard are aligned and technically equivalent to the corresponding ISO standard, Part 4 is to be read as a modification to Part 1, which it requires. A technically equivalent set of texts is published by Ecma as ECMA-376 2nd edition

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Macro (computer science)
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A macro in computer science is a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence should be mapped to a replacement output sequence according to a defined procedure. The mapping process that instantiates a macro use into a sequence is known as macro expansion. A facility for writing macros may be provided as part of an application or as a part of a programming language. In the former case, macros are used to make using the application less repetitive. In the latter case, they are a tool allows a programmer to enable code reuse or even to design domain-specific languages. Macros are used to make a sequence of computing instructions available to the programmer as a single statement, making the programming task less tedious. The term derives from macro instruction, and such expansions were originally used in generating assembly language code, keyboard macros and mouse macros allow short sequences of keystrokes and mouse actions to transform into other, usually more time-consuming, sequences of keystrokes and mouse actions. In this way, frequently used or repetitive sequences of keystrokes, separate programs for creating these macros are called macro recorders. These programs were based on the TSR mode of operation and applied to all keyboard input, keyboard macros have in more recent times come to life as a method of exploiting the economy of massively multiplayer online role-playing games. By tirelessly performing a boring, repetitive, but low risk action and this effect is even larger when a macro-using player operates multiple accounts simultaneously, or operates the accounts for a large amount of time each day. As this money is generated without human intervention, it can upset the economy of the game. For this reason, use of macros is a violation of the TOS or EULA of most MMORPGs, keyboard and mouse macros that are created using an applications built-in macro features are sometimes called application macros. They are created by carrying out the once and letting the application record the actions. An underlying macro programming language, most commonly a scripting language, the programmers text editor, Emacs, follows this idea to a conclusion. In effect, most of the editor is made of macros, Emacs was originally devised as a set of macros in the editing language TECO, it was later ported to dialects of Lisp. Another programmers text editor, Vim, also has full implementation of macros and it can record into a register what a person types on the keyboard and it can be replayed or edited just like VBA macros for Microsoft Office. Vim also has a language called Vimscript to create macros. Visual Basic for Applications is a programming language included in Microsoft Office up to Office 2013, however, its function has evolved from and replaced the macro languages that were originally included in some of these applications

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Microsoft Excel
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Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a programming language called Visual Basic for Applications. It has been a widely applied spreadsheet for these platforms, especially since version 5 in 1993. Excel forms part of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel has the basic features of all spreadsheets, using a grid of cells arranged in numbered rows and letter-named columns to organize data manipulations like arithmetic operations. It has a battery of supplied functions to answer statistical, engineering, in addition, it can display data as line graphs, histograms and charts, and with a very limited three-dimensional graphical display. It allows sectioning of data to view its dependencies on various factors for different perspectives, Excel was not designed to be used as a database. Microsoft allows for a number of optional command-line switches to control the manner in which Excel starts, the Windows version of Excel supports programming through Microsofts Visual Basic for Applications, which is a dialect of Visual Basic. Programming with VBA allows spreadsheet manipulation that is awkward or impossible with standard spreadsheet techniques, programmers may write code directly using the Visual Basic Editor, which includes a window for writing code, debugging code, and code module organization environment. A common and easy way to generate VBA code is by using the Macro Recorder, the Macro Recorder records actions of the user and generates VBA code in the form of a macro. These actions can then be repeated automatically by running the macro, the macros can also be linked to different trigger types like keyboard shortcuts, a command button or a graphic. The actions in the macro can be executed from these types or from the generic toolbar options. The VBA code of the macro can also be edited in the VBE, advanced users can employ user prompts to create an interactive program, or react to events such as sheets being loaded or changed. Macro Recorded code may not be compatible between Excel versions, some code that is used in Excel 2010 can not be used in Excel 2003. Making a Macro that changes the colors and making changes to other aspects of cells may not be backward compatible. User-created VBA subroutines execute these actions and operate like macros generated using the macro recorder, from its first version Excel supported end user programming of macros and user defined functions.0. Beginning with version 5.0 Excel recorded macros in VBA by default, after version 5.0 that option was discontinued. All versions of Excel, including Excel 2010 are capable of running an XLM macro, Excel supports charts, graphs, or histograms generated from specified groups of cells. The generated graphic component can either be embedded within the current sheet and these displays are dynamically updated if the content of cells change

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Add-in
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In computing, a plug-in is a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program. When a program supports plug-ins, it enables customization, the common examples are the plug-ins used in web browsers to add new features such as search-engines, virus scanners, or the ability to use a new file type such as a new video format. Applications support plug-ins for many reasons, types of applications and why they use plug-ins, Audio editors use plug-ins to generate, process or analyse sound. Ardour and Audacity are examples of such editors, email clients use plug-ins to decrypt and encrypt email. Pretty Good Privacy is an example of such plug-ins, graphics software use plug-ins to support file formats and process images. Media players use plug-ins to support file formats and apply filters, foobar2000, GStreamer, Quintessential, VST, Winamp, XMMS are examples of such media players. Packet sniffers use plug-ins to decode packet formats, omniPeek is an example of such packet sniffers. Remote sensing applications use plug-ins to process data from different sensor types, Visual Studio itself can be plugged into other applications via Visual Studio Tools for Office and Visual Studio Tools for Applications. Web browsers use browser extensions to expand their functionality, examples include Adobe Flash Player, Java SE, QuickTime, Microsoft Silverlight and Unity. The host application provides services which the plug-in can use, including a way for plug-ins to register themselves with the host application, plug-ins depend on the services provided by the host application and do not usually work by themselves. Programmers typically implement plug-in functionality using shared libraries installed in a place prescribed by the host application, HyperCard supported a similar facility, but more commonly included the plug-in code in the HyperCard documents themselves. Thus the HyperCard stack became a self-contained application in its own right, programs may also implement plugins by loading a directory of simple script files written in a scripting language like Python or Lua. In Mozilla Foundation definitions, the words add-on, extension and plug-in are not synonyms, add-on can refer to anything that extends the functions of a Mozilla application. Extensions comprise a subtype, albeit the most common and the most powerful one, Mozilla applications come with integrated add-on managers that, similar to package managers, install, update and manage extensions. The term, Plug-in, however, strictly refers to NPAPI-based web content renderers, the plug-in program could make calls to the editor to have it perform text-editing services upon the buffer that the editor shared with the plug-in. The Waterloo Fortran compiler used this feature to allow interactive compilation of Fortran programs edited by EDT, very early PC software applications to incorporate plug-in functionality included HyperCard and QuarkXPress on the Macintosh, both released in 1987. In 1988, Silicon Beach Software included plug-in functionality in Digital Darkroom and SuperPaint, and Ed Bomke coined the term plug-in

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Dynamic-link library
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Dynamic-link library is Microsofts implementation of the shared library concept in the Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems. These libraries usually have the file extension DLL, OCX, or DRV, the file formats for DLLs are the same as for Windows EXE files – that is, Portable Executable for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, and New Executable for 16-bit Windows. As with EXEs, DLLs can contain code, data, and resources, data files with the same file format as a DLL, but with different file extensions and possibly containing only resource sections, can be called resource DLLs. Examples of such DLLs include icon libraries, sometimes having the extension ICL, the first versions of Microsoft Windows ran programs together in a single address space. Every program was meant to co-operate by yielding the CPU to other programs so that the user interface could multitask. All operating-system level operations were provided by the operating system. All higher-level services were provided by Windows Libraries Dynamic Link Library, the Drawing API, Graphics Device Interface, was implemented in a DLL called GDI. EXE, the user interface in USER. EXE. The code in GDI needed to translate drawing commands to operations on specific devices, on the display, it had to manipulate pixels in the frame buffer. When drawing to a printer, the API calls had to be transformed into requests to a printer, although it could have been possible to provide hard-coded support for a limited set of devices, Microsoft chose a different approach. GDI would work by loading different pieces of code, called device drivers, with dynamic linking, shared code is placed into a single, separate file. The programs that call this file are connected to it at run time, with the operating system, for those early versions of Windows, the DLLs were the foundation for the entire GUI. As such, display drivers were merely DLLs with a. EXE extension and this notion of building up the operating system from a collection of dynamically loaded libraries is a core concept of Windows that persists as of 2015. DLLs provide the benefits of shared libraries, such as modularity. Modularity allows changes to be made to code and data in a single self-contained DLL shared by several applications without any change to the applications themselves, another benefit of modularity is the use of generic interfaces for plug-ins. A single interface may be developed which allows old as well as new modules to be integrated seamlessly at run-time into pre-existing applications and this concept of dynamic extensibility is taken to the extreme with the Component Object Model, the underpinnings of ActiveX. In Windows 1. x,2. x and 3. x, a DLL was only loaded once into this address space, from then on, all programs using the library accessed it. The librarys data was shared across all the programs and this could be used as an indirect form of inter-process communication, or it could accidentally corrupt the different programs. With the introduction of 32-bit libraries in Windows 95 every process runs in its own address space, while the DLL code may be shared, the data is private except where shared data is explicitly requested by the library

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Microsoft PowerPoint
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Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program currently developed by Microsoft, for use on both Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating systems. PowerPoint, initially named Presenter, was created by Forethought Inc, Microsofts version of PowerPoint was officially launched on May 22,1990, as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. PowerPoint is useful for helping develop the slide-based presentation format and is one of the most commonly used slide-based presentation programs available. Microsoft has also released the PowerPoint mobile application for use on Apple, originally designed for the Macintosh computer, the initial release was called Presenter, developed by Thomas Rudkin and Dennis Austin of Forethought, Inc. In 1987, it was renamed to PowerPoint due to problems with trademarks, by then some experts believed that desktop presentations, using computers to create flip charts and overhead transparencies, could become as large a market as desktop publishing. That year Forethought was bought by Microsoft for $14 million, and became Microsofts Graphics Business Unit, Microsofts version of PowerPoint was officially launched on May 22,1990, the same day that Microsoft released Windows 3.0. PowerPoint introduced many new changes with the release of PowerPoint 97 and it incorporated the Visual Basic for Applications language, underlying all macro generation in Office 97. PowerPoint 2000 introduced a clipboard that could hold objects at once. PowerPoint 2002 massively overhauled the engine, allowing users to create more advanced. PowerPoint 2011 makes it possible to remove image backgrounds, and provides additional effects for pictures. As of 2012, various versions of PowerPoint claim about 95% of the software market share. Among presenters world-wide, this program is used at a frequency of 350 times per second. PowerPoint presentations consist of a number of pages or slides. The slide analogy is a reference to the slide projector, slides may contain text, graphics, sound, movies, and other objects, which may be arranged freely. The presentation can be printed, displayed live on a computer, for larger audiences the computer display is often a video projector. Slides can also form the basis of webcasts, PowerPoint provides three types of movements, Entrance, emphasis, and exit of elements on a slide itself are controlled by what PowerPoint calls Custom Animations. Transitions, on the hand, there are movements between slides. These can be animated in a variety of ways, Custom animation can be used to create small story boards by animating pictures to enter, exit or move

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Microsoft Access
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Microsoft Access is a database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools. It is a member of the Microsoft Office suite of applications, included in the Professional, Microsoft Access stores data in its own format based on the Access Jet Database Engine. It can also import or link directly to data stored in other applications, software developers, data architects and power users can use Microsoft Access to develop application software. Visual objects used in forms and reports expose their methods and properties in the VBA programming environment, Microsofts first attempt to sell a relational database product was during the mid 1980s, when Microsoft obtained the license to sell R, Base. In the late 1980s Microsoft developed its own solution codenamed Omega and it was confirmed in 1988 that a database product for Windows and OS/2 was in development. Omega was also expected to provide a front end to the Microsoft SQL Server, the application was very resource-hungry, and there were reports that it was working slowly on the 386 processors that were available at the time. It was scheduled to be released in the 1st quarter of 1990, parts of the project were later used for other Microsoft projects, Cirrus and Thunder. After Accesss premiere, the Omega project was demonstrated in 1992 to several journalists, after the Omega project was scrapped, some of its developers were assigned to the Cirrus project. Its goal was to create a competitor for applications like Paradox or dBase that would work on Windows, after Microsoft acquired FoxPro, there were rumors that the Microsoft project might get replaced with it, but the company decided to develop them in parallel. It was assumed that the project would use of Extensible Storage Engine but, in the end. The project used some of the code from both the Omega project and a version of Visual Basic. In July 1992, betas of Cirrus shipped to developers and the name Access became the name of the product. The product shipped on seven 1.44 MB diskettes, the manual shows a 1994 copyright date. Originally, the software worked well with relatively small databases but testing showed that some circumstances caused data corruption. With Office 95, Microsoft Access 7.0 became part of the Microsoft Office Professional Suite, joining Microsoft Excel, Word, since then, Microsoft has released new versions of Microsoft Access with each release of Microsoft Office. This includes Access 97, Access 2000, Access 2002, Access 2003, Access 2007, Access 2010, and Access 2013. Versions 3.0 and 3.5 of Microsoft Jet database engine had an issue which made these versions of Access unusable on a computer with more than 1 GB of memory. While Microsoft fixed this problem for Jet 3. 5/Access 97 post-release, the native Access database format has also evolved over the years

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Visual Basic for Applications
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Visual Basic for Applications enables building user-defined functions, automating processes and accessing Windows API and other low-level functionality through dynamic-link libraries. It supersedes and expands on the abilities of earlier application-specific macro programming languages such as Words WordBasic. It can be used to control aspects of the host application, including manipulating user interface features, such as menus and toolbars. As its name suggests, VBA is closely related to Visual Basic, however, VBA code normally can only run within a host application, rather than as a standalone program. VBA can, however, control one application from another using OLE Automation, for example, VBA can automatically create a Microsoft Word report from Microsoft Excel data that Excel collects automatically from polled sensors. VBA can use, but not create, ActiveX/COM DLLs, VBA is built into most Microsoft Office applications, including Office for Mac OS X, and other Microsoft applications, including Microsoft MapPoint and Microsoft Visio. VBA is also implemented, at least partially, in applications published by other than Microsoft, including ArcGIS, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, CorelDraw. The intermediate code is executed by a virtual machine. Compatibility ends with Visual Basic version 6, VBA is incompatible with Visual Basic. NET, VBA is proprietary to Microsoft and, apart from the COM interface, is not an open standard. Interaction with the host application uses OLE Automation, typically, the host application provides a type library and application programming interface documentation which document how VBA programs can interact with the application. This documentation can be examined from inside the VBA development environment using its Object Browser, for example, a VBA program written to automate Microsoft Word cannot be used with a different word processor, even if that word processor hosts VBA. Conversely, multiple applications can be automated from the one host by creating Application objects within the VBA code, references to the different libraries must be created within the VBA client before any of the methods, objects, etc. become available to use in the application. This is achieved through what is referred to as Early or Late Binding and these application objects create the OLE link to the application when they are first created. Commands to the different applications must be done explicitly through these objects in order to work correctly. VBA programs can be attached to a button, a macro. The language provides an interface in the form of UserForms. As with any common programming language, VBA macros can be created with malicious intent, using VBA, most of the security features lie in the hands of the user, not the author. The VBA host application options are accessible to the user, the user who runs any document containing VBA macros can preset the software with user preferences

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Microsoft Publisher
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However, it has a relatively small share of the desktop publishing market, which is dominated by Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress. Publishers proprietary file format is supported in LibreOffice since February 2013, corel Draw X4 features read only support. Adobes PageMaker software saves files with a. pub extension but the two files are incompatible and unrelated, Publisher supports numerous other file formats, including the Enhanced Metafile format which is supported on Windows platforms. The Microsoft Publisher trial version can be used to view. pub files beyond the trial period, official website Microsoft Publisher blog on MSDN Blogs

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XPS Document
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Open XML Paper Specification is an open specification for a page description language and a fixed-document format. Microsoft developed it as the XML Paper Specification, in June 2009, Ecma International adopted it as international standard ECMA-388. It is an XML-based specification, based on a new print path, in Windows 8. xps was replaced with the ECMA standard. oxps format which is not natively supported in older Windows versions. Notably, the language for XPS is a subset of XAML, allowing it to incorporate vector-graphic elements in documents. The elements used are described in terms of paths and other geometrical primitives, an XPS file is a ZIP archive using the Open Packaging Conventions, containing the files which make up the document. These include an XML markup file for each page, text, embedded fonts, raster images, 2D vector graphics, the contents of an XPS file can be examined by opening it in an application which supports ZIP files. There are two incompatible XPS formats on the market, the original document writer printed to. xps in Windows 7 and earlier. Beginning with Windows 8, the document writer defaults to the OpenXPS. oxps format, trying to open. oxps files in Windows 7 or lesser without a. oxps-to. xps converter will result in an error. XpsConverter converts documents between. xps and. oxps format, while OxpsConverter converts documents from. oxps to. xps format, XPS specifies a set of document layout functionality for paged, printable documents. It also has support for such as color gradients, transparencies, CMYK color spaces, printer calibration, multiple-ink systems. XPS supports the Windows Color System color management technology for color conversion precision across devices and it includes a software raster image processor. The print subsystem supports named colors, simplifying color definition for images transmitted to printers supporting those colors, XPS supports HD Photo images natively for raster images. Like Adobe Systemss PDF format, XPS is a document format designed to preserve document fidelity. PDF is a database of objects that may be created from PostScript or generated directly from applications, both formats are compressed, albeit using different methods. The filter pipeline architecture of XPS is also similar to the one used in supporting the PostScript page description language. PDF includes dynamic capabilities purposely not supported by the XPS format, XPS is supported on several versions of Windows. Because the printing architecture of Windows Vista uses XPS as the spooler format, XPS documents can be created by printing to the virtual XPS printer driver. The XPS Viewer is installed by default in Windows Vista, Windows 7, the viewer is hosted within Internet Explorer in Windows Vista, but is a native application in 7 and 8 which supports digital signatures

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XML
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In computing, Extensible Markup Language is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. The W3Cs XML1.0 Specification and several other related specifications—all of them free open standards—define XML, the design goals of XML emphasize simplicity, generality, and usability across the Internet. It is a data format with strong support via Unicode for different human languages. Although the design of XML focuses on documents, the language is used for the representation of arbitrary data structures such as those used in web services. Several schema systems exist to aid in the definition of XML-based languages, hundreds of document formats using XML syntax have been developed, including RSS, Atom, SOAP, SVG, and XHTML. XML-based formats have become the default for many office-productivity tools, including Microsoft Office, OpenOffice. org and LibreOffice, XML has also provided the base language for communication protocols such as XMPP. Applications for the Microsoft. NET Framework use XML files for configuration, apple has an implementation of a registry based on XML. XML has come into use for the interchange of data over the Internet. IETF RFC7303 gives rules for the construction of Internet Media Types for use when sending XML and it also defines the media types application/xml and text/xml, which say only that the data is in XML, and nothing about its semantics. The use of text/xml has been criticized as a source of encoding problems. RFC7303 also recommends that XML-based languages be given media types ending in +xml, further guidelines for the use of XML in a networked context appear in RFC3470, also known as IETF BCP70, a document covering many aspects of designing and deploying an XML-based language. The material in this section is based on the XML Specification and this is not an exhaustive list of all the constructs that appear in XML, it provides an introduction to the key constructs most often encountered in day-to-day use. Character An XML document is a string of characters, almost every legal Unicode character may appear in an XML document. Processor and application The processor analyzes the markup and passes structured information to an application, the specification places requirements on what an XML processor must do and not do, but the application is outside its scope. The processor is often referred to colloquially as an XML parser, Markup and content The characters making up an XML document are divided into markup and content, which may be distinguished by the application of simple syntactic rules. Generally, strings that constitute markup either begin with the character < and end with a >, or they begin with the character &, strings of characters that are not markup are content. However, in a CDATA section, the delimiters <. > are classified as markup, in addition, whitespace before and after the outermost element is classified as markup. Tag A tag is a construct that begins with <

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MSDN
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The relationship management is situated in assorted media, web sites, newsletters, developer conferences, trade media, blogs and DVD distribution. The life cycle of the ranges from legacy support through evangelizing potential offerings. The main website, and most of its constituent applications below are available in 56 or more languages, MSDN Library is a library of official technical documentation content intended for developers developing for Microsoft Windows. MSDN Library documents the APIs that ship with Microsoft products and also includes sample code, technical articles and it is available free on the web and on CDs and DVDs for paid MSDN subscribers. Initially, the version was only available as part of an MSDN subscription and was released on a quarterly basis. However, in recent times, it can be downloaded from Microsoft Download Center in form of ISO images for CD/DVD releases are no longer published quarterly. Instead, its schedule is now aligned with major software releases. Visual Studio Express edition integrates only with MSDN Express Library, which is a subset of the full MSDN Library, in Visual Studio 2010 MSDN Library is replaced with the new Help System, which is installed as a part of Visual Studio 2010 installation. Help Library Manager is used to install Help Content books covering selected topics, each edition of MSDN Library can only be accessed with one help viewer, which is integrated with the then current single version or sometimes two versions of Visual Studio. In addition, each new version of Visual Studio does not integrate with a version of MSDN. A compatible MSDN Library is released with new version of Visual Studio. MSDN Library versions can be installed side-by-side, that is, both the older as well as the version of MSDN Library can co-exist. MSDN Forums are the web-based forums used by the community to discuss a variety of software development topics. MSDN Forums were migrated to a platform during 2008 that provided new features designed to improve efficiency such as inline preview of threads, AJAX filtering. MSDN blogs is a series of Microsoft blogs hosted under blogs. msdn. com domain name, Social bookmarking on MSDN Social was first launched in 2008, built on a new web platform that has user-tagging and feeds at its core. The goal of the social bookmarking application is to provide a method whereby members of the community can. By filtering on one or more tags, users can discover popular or recent links, find and follow experts recommended sites. Each profile page includes a feed of the users contributions, users can be discovered through a drop-down menu on each bookmark

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Microsoft
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Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup, as of 2016, it was the worlds largest software maker by revenue, and one of the worlds most valuable companies. Microsoft was founded by Paul Allen and Bill Gates on April 4,1975, to develop and it rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows. The companys 1986 initial public offering, and subsequent rise in its share price, since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions. In May 2011, Microsoft acquired Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion, in June 2012, Microsoft entered the personal computer production market for the first time, with the launch of the Microsoft Surface, a line of tablet computers. The word Microsoft is a portmanteau of microcomputer and software, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, childhood friends with a passion for computer programming, sought to make a successful business utilizing their shared skills. In 1972 they founded their first company, named Traf-O-Data, which offered a computer that tracked and analyzed automobile traffic data. Allen went on to pursue a degree in science at Washington State University. The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics featured Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systemss Altair 8800 microcomputer, Allen suggested that they could program a BASIC interpreter for the device, after a call from Gates claiming to have a working interpreter, MITS requested a demonstration. Since they didnt actually have one, Allen worked on a simulator for the Altair while Gates developed the interpreter and they officially established Microsoft on April 4,1975, with Gates as the CEO. Allen came up with the name of Micro-Soft, as recounted in a 1995 Fortune magazine article. In August 1977 the company formed an agreement with ASCII Magazine in Japan, resulting in its first international office, the company moved to a new home in Bellevue, Washington in January 1979. Microsoft entered the OS business in 1980 with its own version of Unix, however, it was MS-DOS that solidified the companys dominance. For this deal, Microsoft purchased a CP/M clone called 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products, branding it as MS-DOS, following the release of the IBM PC in August 1981, Microsoft retained ownership of MS-DOS. Since IBM copyrighted the IBM PC BIOS, other companies had to engineer it in order for non-IBM hardware to run as IBM PC compatibles. Due to various factors, such as MS-DOSs available software selection, the company expanded into new markets with the release of the Microsoft Mouse in 1983, as well as with a publishing division named Microsoft Press. Paul Allen resigned from Microsoft in 1983 after developing Hodgkins disease, while jointly developing a new OS with IBM in 1984, OS/2, Microsoft released Microsoft Windows, a graphical extension for MS-DOS, on November 20,1985. Once Microsoft informed IBM of NT, the OS/2 partnership deteriorated, in 1990, Microsoft introduced its office suite, Microsoft Office

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History of Microsoft Office
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OneNote 2003 is included in any of the Office 2003 editions. FrontPage 2003, Visio 2003 and Project 2003 were also sold separately, Project 2010 and Visio 2010 are available only as a single/individual product. Office Customization Tool is available only on volume edition of Standard 2010, in Microsoft Office folder one may found one or more sub-folders, Office14

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Microsoft Windows
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Microsoft Windows is a metafamily of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft. It consists of families of operating systems, each of which cater to a certain sector of the computing industry with the OS typically associated with IBM PC compatible architecture. Active Windows families include Windows NT, Windows Embedded and Windows Phone, defunct Windows families include Windows 9x, Windows 10 Mobile is an active product, unrelated to the defunct family Windows Mobile. Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20,1985, Microsoft Windows came to dominate the worlds personal computer market with over 90% market share, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced in 1984. Apple came to see Windows as an encroachment on their innovation in GUI development as implemented on products such as the Lisa. On PCs, Windows is still the most popular operating system, however, in 2014, Microsoft admitted losing the majority of the overall operating system market to Android, because of the massive growth in sales of Android smartphones. In 2014, the number of Windows devices sold was less than 25% that of Android devices sold and this comparison however may not be fully relevant, as the two operating systems traditionally target different platforms. As of September 2016, the most recent version of Windows for PCs, tablets, smartphones, the most recent versions for server computers is Windows Server 2016. A specialized version of Windows runs on the Xbox One game console, Microsoft, the developer of Windows, has registered several trademarks each of which denote a family of Windows operating systems that target a specific sector of the computing industry. It now consists of three operating system subfamilies that are released almost at the time and share the same kernel. Windows, The operating system for personal computers, tablets. The latest version is Windows 10, the main competitor of this family is macOS by Apple Inc. for personal computers and Android for mobile devices. Windows Server, The operating system for server computers, the latest version is Windows Server 2016. Unlike its clients sibling, it has adopted a strong naming scheme, the main competitor of this family is Linux. Windows PE, A lightweight version of its Windows sibling meant to operate as an operating system, used for installing Windows on bare-metal computers. The latest version is Windows PE10.0.10586.0, Windows Embedded, Initially, Microsoft developed Windows CE as a general-purpose operating system for every device that was too resource-limited to be called a full-fledged computer. The following Windows families are no longer being developed, Windows 9x, Microsoft now caters to the consumers market with Windows NT. Windows Mobile, The predecessor to Windows Phone, it was a mobile operating system

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Microsoft Office 95
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Microsoft Office 95, also known as Microsoft Office for Windows 95, released on 24 August 1995, was a version of Microsoft Office designed specifically for Windows 95, succeeding Office 4.3. Office 95 was replaced by Office 97 on 19 November 1996, Microsoft Office 95 includes six applications, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Schedule+ and Binder. The CD-ROM version also includes Microsoft Bookshelf, true to its namesake, this suite is designed specifically for Windows 95. Previously, Microsoft had released Office 4.2 for Windows NT for several architectures, which included 32‑bit Word 6.0 for Windows NT and Excel 5.0 for Windows NT, with Office for Windows 95, all components in the suite were 32-bit. All the Office 95 apps are OLE 2-enabled, meaning that they allow interoperability between themselves, as well as all other applications that support this data interchange protocol, Binder used this protocol to bind OLE objects together. Office for Windows 95 bears version number 7.0 to match Words version number, other components also bear the same version numbers to show that they are contemporaries, although their predecessors were not version 6.0. The previous versions of components were Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, PowerPoint 4.0, Schedule+1.0, Binder was a new app at the time with no predecessor. Microsoft Outlook was not included and used to be bundled with Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, Microsoft Excel contained an easter egg, a hidden Doom–like game called Hall of Tortured Souls crediting the applications writers. They contained the following applications, There were no service packs or service releases for Office for Windows 95. Instead, two updated versions,7. 0a and 7. 0b were released to fix bugs in the application, the updates could be ordered from Microsoft Support. A downloadable update was released in 1999 to address minor year 2000 problems, all support for Microsoft Office 95 ended on December 31,2001, the same day as Windows 95. While this problem was fixed for Jet 3. 5/Access 97, Microsoft Office 95 requires a 386DX or higher CPU, and either Windows 95, Windows NT4.0, or Windows NT3.51. It also requires 8 MB of RAM for typical use, regarding hard disk space, compact installations require 28 MB, typical installations require 55 MB, and full installations require 88 MB

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Microsoft Office 97
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Microsoft Office 97 is a major milestone release of Microsoft Office, which includes hundreds of new features and improvements over its predecessor. It introduced Command Bars, a paradigm in which menus and toolbars were made similar in capability. It also featured natural language systems and sophisticated grammar checking and it was published on CD-ROM as well as on a set of 44 3½-inch floppy disks. Released on November 19,1996, it was the last version to support Windows NT3.51 on i386, two service releases were released for Office 97. SR-2 solved the year 2000 problem in Office 97, the default assistant was Clippit, nicknamed Clippy, a paperclip. The office assistant feature was included in Microsoft Office 2000, XP and 2003, Office 97 is also the first Microsoft product to include product activation. The Brazilian versions of Office 97 Small Business Edition and Publisher 98 required it, assisted support options and security updates for Office 97 ended on January 16,2004. Mainstream hotfix support for Office 97 ended on August 31,2001, extended hotfix support ended on February 28,2002. Two Office 97 applications featured easter eggs, Microsoft Word 97 contained a hidden pinball game, Office 97 was released in five editions

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Microsoft Office 2000
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Microsoft Office 2000 is a release of Microsoft Office, an office suite developed by Microsoft for the Windows family of operating systems. Office 2000 was released to manufacturing on March 29,1999 and it is the successor to Office 97 and the predecessor to Office XP. Additionally, Office 2000 introduces PhotoDraw, a raster and vector imaging program, Office 2000 offers improved compliance with the year 2000 and is the first version of Office to use Windows Installer for the installation process. Microsoft globally released five main editions of Office 2000, Standard, Small Business, Professional, Premium, an additional Personal edition exclusive to Japan was also released. Microsoft extended this requirement to retail editions sold in Canada and the United States with the availability of Office 2000 Service Release 1, Office 2000 supports Windows 95, Windows NT4.0 SP3, Windows 98, and Windows Me. It is the last version of Office to support Windows 95 as its successor, Microsoft released a total of three service packs for Office 2000 throughout its lifecycle. The first update was called Service Release 1, while subsequent updates were referred to as service packs, mainstream support for Office 2000 ended on June 30,2004, and extended support ended on July 14,2009. This compilation would later become widespread as Microsoft Office 2003 Basic

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Microsoft Office XP
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Microsoft Office XP is an office suite created and distributed by Microsoft for the Windows operating system. Office XP was released to manufacturing on March 5,2001 and was made available to retail on May 31,2001. It is the successor to Office 2000 and the predecessor to Office 2003, with Office XP, Microsoft incorporated several features to address reliability issues observed in previous versions of Office. Office XP also introduces separate Document Imaging, Document Scanning, the Office Assistant introduced in Office 97 is disabled by default in Office XP, which was a key element of Microsofts campaign for the product after the negative reception of this feature. Office XP is not compatible with Windows 95, Office XP is compatible with Windows NT4.0 Service Pack 6, Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows ME. It is the last version to support Windows NT4.0, Windows 98, Microsoft released a total of three service packs for Office XP during its lifetime. Mainstream support for Office XP ended on July 11,2006, SharePoint Portal Server 2001, then codenamed Tahoe, was also in development at this time and was slated to improve collaboration for users of Office 2000 and Office 10. In August, Microsoft released Office 10 Beta 1 for product evaluation purposes, Office 10 was slated to include integrated speech recognition, and new formatting options. Reports stated that Office 10 would provide Smart Tags, and a Digital Dashboard web portal complete with Web Parts, Office XP Beta 1 was compatible with Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT4.0 SP5, and Windows 2000. Prior to the release of Office 10 Beta 2, there was speculation that Microsoft intended to rebrand the new product as Office 2001, Office 2002, Office. NET, or Office XP. The latter was shorthand for eXPerience and was positioned as a brand that would emphasize the new experiences enabled by the product. Microsoft ultimately decided on Office XP as the name of the product and used the same brand for Windows XP, then codenamed Whistler. In spite of this, individual Office XP products such as Excel, PowerPoint, Office XP Beta 2 was released to 10,000 technical testers in late 2000. Microsoft also terminated the support for Windows 95 and Windows NT4.0 SP5.95. Office XP was released to manufacturing on March 5,2001 and was made available to retail on May 31,2001. Microsoft released a total of three service packs for Office XP that introduced security enhancements, stability improvements, and fixes for software bugs throughout the products lifecycle, all service packs were made available as separate Client and Administrative updates. Client updates were intended for users who installed Office XP from a CD-ROM, Client updates required the Office XP installation media during the installation process and could not be removed after they were installed. Full file updates were intended for network administrators to deploy updates to Office XP users who installed the product from a server location, Users could also manually install full file updates

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Microsoft Office 2003
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Microsoft Office 2003 is an office suite developed and distributed by Microsoft for its Windows operating system. Office 2003 was released to manufacturing on August 19,2003 and it was the successor to Office XP and the predecessor to Office 2007. New features in Office 2003 include information rights management, new features, improved support for SharePoint, smart tags, and XML. It also introduces the Picture Manager graphics software to open, edit, manage, with the release of Office 2003, Microsoft rebranded the Office productivity suite as an integrated system dedicated to information workers. As a result, Microsoft appended the Office branding to all programs, Office 2003 also is also the first version with support for Windows XP colors and visual styles, and also includes updated icons. Office 2003 is the last version of Office to include the bar and toolbars across all programs. It is compatible with Windows 2000 and Windows XP, it is not supported on Windows 98, Windows ME and it is the last version of Office compatible with Windows 2000, as Office 2007 requires Windows XP or a later version. Microsoft released a total of three service packs for Office 2003 throughout its lifecycle, Service Pack 1 was released on July 27,2004, Service Pack 2 was released on September 27,2005, and Service Pack 3 was released on September 17,2007. Mainstream support for Office 2003 ended April 14,2009, the core applications, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, had only minor improvements from Office XP. Another key benefit of Outlook 2003 was the improved junk mail filter, tablet and pen support was introduced in the productivity applications. Word 2003 introduced a reading layout view, document comparison, better change-tracking and annotation/reviewing, a Research Task Pane, voice comments, Excel 2003 introduced list commands, some statistical functions and XML data import, analysis and transformation/document customization features. Access 2003 introduced a backup command, the ability to view object dependencies, error checking in forms, Office 2003 features improvements to smart tags such as smart tag Lists, which are defined in XML, by using regular expressions and an extended type library. Smart tag recognition was added to PowerPoint and Access, publisher 2003 introduced a Generic Color PostScript printer driver for commercial printing. Information Rights Management capabilities were introduced in document productivity applications to access to a set of users and/or restrict types of actions that users could perform. Support for managed code add-ins as VSTO solutions was introduced and it was also the last Office version to support Windows 2000. A new picture organizer with basic editing features, called Microsoft Office Picture Manager, was included, only basic clipart and templates were included on the disc media, with most content hosted online and downloadable from within the Office application. Microsoft advertised Office Online as a major Office 2003 feature outside the box, Office Online provides how-to articles, tips, training courses, templates, clip art, stock photos and media and downloads. Office 2003 features broad XML integration throughout resulting in a far more data-centric model, the MSXML5 library was introduced specifically for Offices XML integration

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Microsoft Office 2010
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Microsoft Office 2010 is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. Office 2010 was released to manufacturing on April 15,2010 and it is the successor to Microsoft Office 2007 and the predecessor to Microsoft Office 2013. Research and development of Office 2010 began in 2006, before the release of its predecessor, Office 2010 introduces user interface enhancements including a Backstage view interface that consolidates document management commands into a single location. The ribbon introduced as part of Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, the design of Office 2010 incorporates features from SharePoint and borrows from Web 2.0 ideas. Office 2010 is the first version of the productivity suite to ship in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, but the 64-bit version is not officially compatible with Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 and it is also the first version to require product activation for volume license editions. Office 2010 marks the debut of Office Online, a collection of free web-based versions of Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint, Office Starter 2010, a new edition of Office, replaced the low-end Microsoft Works home productivity software. As of December 31,2011, approximately 200 million licenses of Office 2010 have been sold, Microsoft reportedly discontinued sales of Office 2010 on January 31,2013. Mainstream support for Office 2010 ended on October 13,2015, development started in 2007 while Microsoft was finishing work on Office 12, released as Microsoft Office 2007. The version number 13 was skipped because of the fear of the number 13 and it was previously thought that Office 2010 would ship in the first half of 2009. On April 15,2009, Microsoft confirmed that Office 2010 would be released in the first half of 2010 and they announced on May 12,2009, at a Tech Ed event, a trial version of the 64-bit edition. The Technical Preview 1 was leaked on May 15,2009, an internal post-beta build was leaked on July 12,2009. This was newer than the official preview build and included a Limestone internal test application, on July 13,2009, Microsoft announced Office 2010 at its Worldwide Partner Conference 2009. On July 14,2009, Microsoft started to send out invitations on Microsoft Connect to test a preview build of Office 2010. On August 30,2009, the beta build 4417 was leaked on the internet via torrents, the public beta was available to subscribers of TechNet, MSDN and Microsoft Connect users on November 16,2009. Office 2010 Beta was a free, fully functional version and expired on October 31,2010, in an effort to help customers and partners with deployment of Office 2010, Microsoft launched an Office 2010 application compatibility program with tools and guidance available for download. On February 5,2010, the release candidate build 4734.1000 was available to Connect. It was leaked to torrent sites, a few days after, the RTM Escrow build was leaked. MSDN and TechNet subscribers have been able to download the RTM version since April 22,2010, the RTM version number is 14.0.4763.1000

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Microsoft Office 2013
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Microsoft Office 2013 is a version of Microsoft Office, a productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. It is the successor to Microsoft Office 2010 and the predecessor to Microsoft Office 2016 and it includes extended file format support, user interface updates and support for touch among its new features. Office 2013 is suitable for IA-32 and x64 systems and requires Windows 7, a version of Office 2013 comes included on Windows RT devices. Mainstream support ends on April 10,2018, extended support ends on April 11,2023. Development on this version of Microsoft Office was started in 2010 and ended on October 11,2012, Microsoft released Office 2013 to general availability on January 29,2013. Office Web Apps are available free of charge on the web although enterprises may obtain on-premises installations for a price, Microsoft Office applications may be obtained individually, this includes Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project and Microsoft SharePoint Designer which are not included in any of the twelve editions. On February 25,2014, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1 was released, development started in 2010 while Microsoft was finishing work on Office 14, released as Microsoft Office 2010. On January 30,2012, Microsoft released a preview of Office 15, build 3612.1010. On July 16,2012, Microsoft held a conference to showcase Office 2013. The Office 2013 Consumer Preview is a free, fully functional version, an update was issued for the Office 2013 Customer Preview suite on October 5. Office 2013 was released to manufacturing on October 11,2012 and it was made available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers on October 24. On November 15,2012, 60-days trial versions of Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus, Project Professional 2013, Microsoft has released Office 2013 for general availability on January 29,2013. Microsoft released the service pack 1 update on February 25,2014 and it also supports OASIS version 1.2 of ISO/IEC26300,2006, Open Document Format, which Office 2013 can read and write. Additionally, Office 2013 provides full read, write, and edit support for ISO32000, new features include a new read mode in Microsoft Word, a presentation mode in Microsoft PowerPoint and improved touch and inking in all of the Office programs. Microsoft Word can also insert video and audio from online sources as well as the capability to broadcast documents on the Web, Word and PowerPoint also have bookmark-like features which sync the position of the document between different computers. There is no longer an option to local help files during installation. In all other regions, retail copies of Office 2013 and Office 365 subscriptions only contain a product key, the first of these was that the software could no longer be transferred to another computer. In previous versions of Office, this applied only to OEM editions

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Microsoft Office 2016
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Microsoft Office 2016 is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite, succeeding both Office 2013 and Office for Mac 2011. It was released on macOS on 9 July 2015 and on Microsoft Windows on 22 September 2015 for Office 365 subscribers, mainstream support ends on 13 October 2020, and extended support ends on 14 October 2025. The perpetually licensed version on macOS and Windows was released on 22 September 2015, Microsoft Office 2016 cannot coexist with Microsoft Office 2013 apps, but it can coexist with earlier versions of Microsoft Office, such as 2003,2007, and 2010. Microsoft offers to replace these older 2013 versions with an updated version. New features in the Mac release include a user interface that uses ribbons, full support for Retina Display. In Word, there is a new Design tab, an Insights feature, which is powered by Bing, in Excel, there is a Recommended Charts feature, and PivotTable Slicers. In PowerPoint, there are variants, which provide different color schemes for a theme. In Outlook, there is a Propose New Time feature, the ability to see calendars side by side, Outlook 2016 for Mac has very limited support for synchronization of collaboration services outside of basic email. With version 15.25, Office for Mac transitioned from 32-bit to 64-bit by default, users that require a 32-bit version for compatibility reasons will be able to download the 15.25 version as a one-time update manually from the Microsoft Office website. All versions following 15.25 will be 64-bit only, Office for Mac got touch bar support on February 16,2017, as promised on the launch of Macbook Pro with touch bar. As with previous versions, Office 2016 is made available in several distinct editions aimed towards different markets, all traditional editions of Microsoft Office 2016 contain Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote and are licensed for use on one computer. Five traditional editions of Office 2016 were released for Windows, Home & Student, Home & Business, This retail suite includes the core applications and Outlook. Standard, This suite, only available through volume licensing channels, includes the core applications, as well as Outlook, professional, This retail suite includes the core applications, as well as Outlook, Publisher and Access. Professional Plus, This suite, only available through volume licensing channels, includes the core applications, as well as Outlook, Publisher, Access, three traditional editions of Office 2016 were released for Mac, Home & Student, This retail suite includes the core applications only. Home & Business, This retail suite includes the core applications, standard, This suite, only available through volume licensing channels, includes the core applications and Outlook. The Office 365 subscription services, which were aimed towards business. The subscriptions allow use of the Office 2016 applications by users using a software as a service model. Different plans are available for Office 365, some of which also include value-added services, the user interface design of Office 2016 for Windows is relatively unchanged from its predecessor, Microsoft Office 2013

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Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition
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Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition is a version of Microsoft Office for the classic Mac OS, unveiled at Macworld Expo/San Francisco on January 6,1998. It introduced the Internet Explorer 4.0 browser and Outlook Express, Office 98 was re-engineered by Microsofts Macintosh Business Unit to satisfy customers desire for more Mac-like software. It included drag-and-drop installation, self-repairing applications and Quick Thesaurus, before such features were available in a version of Office for Windows and it also was the first version to support QuickTime movies. A Mac OS-compatible computer equipped with a PowerPC processor, system 7.5 operating system or later. At least 16 MB of physical RAM to run one application,32 MB recommended to run multiple applications, sufficient hard disk space, depending on installation method, Drag and drop or Easy, Complete or Run from CD or Run from network. An 8-bit color or 4-bit grayscale display with at least 640 x 400 resolution, review, Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition. Solid Office 98 does the Mac proud, Microsoft again allies with Mac for Office 98. The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution, Microsoft Office even better for 98

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Microsoft Office 2001
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Microsoft Office 2001 is a suite of productivity software for Mac OS8, Mac OS9, or the Classic environment in Mac OS X. It was developed by Microsoft and announced on September 13,2000 before its release on October 11,2000, as with previous versions of Microsoft Office, Office 2001 includes Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. It also includes, for the first time, Entourage, a personal manager that features an e-mail client, a calendar. Dictionary The dictionary gives definitions for words in a document and this is different from previous versions of the dictionary which only gave the spelling of words. Word count A live word count is included which automatically displays the number of words written as they are typed and this is in contrast with previous version of Word in which Word Count had to be manually selected from a menu. Click and type Microsoft Office 2001 made it possible to double-click anywhere on the page, in previous versions of Word, the only way to begin typing in the middle of a blank line would be to press tab or space button until the cursor arrived at the desired location. Bullet points and numbering Bullet points in PowerPoint presentations can now be more than just dots, there are several small graphics to choose from to replace the standard bullet point. Also, numbered lists can now enumerate themselves even if they are rearranged into a different order or extra items are added, QuickTime With Office 2001 it is possible to save PowerPoint presentations in QuickTime File Format. A QuickTime slideshow works just like an ordinary slideshow and can be opened and edited in PowerPoint, list manager The list manager and list wizard automate tasks that involve sorting and summarizing list data. Formula calculator This virtual calculator provides a way to create formulas for cells throughout the Excel spreadsheet. Autocomplete Excel can predict a word or phrase that the wants to type in without the user actually typing it in completely. It features a calendar, to-do list, email and address book all into one, Entourage also lets users transfer all of their information from these features onto corresponding applications on a Palm device. The Microsoft Office 2001 for Mac Value Pack contains several features that give Microsoft Office 2001 more functionality, all of these optional are available for install straight from the Office 2001 CD. Assistants By default there is already an Office Assistant installed with Microsoft Office 2001, with the Value Pack there are many more selectable office assistants available. Users are then able select an Office Assistant that matches their personality, Clip art Additional clip art files, GIFs, background textures, and movies can be installed with the Value Pack. These new visuals can be added to Microsoft Office documents as well as presentations and are accessible through the Microsoft Office 2001, Equation Editor Equation Editor allows for mathematical equations to be included in Excel, Word and PowerPoint. Mathematical symbols appear in a toolbar at the top of the screen, Set Language add-in Set Language add-In was a feature that only affected Excel. This new feature allowed users to check for correct grammar and spelling with more than one language at a time, Genigraphics Wizard Makes it possible to have PowerPoint presentations made into real slides, or transparencies, among other printed media

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Microsoft Office v. X
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Microsoft Office is an office suite of applications, servers, and services developed by Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on 1 August 1988, initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Over the years, Office applications have grown substantially closer with shared features such as a spell checker, OLE data integration. Microsoft also positions Office as a development platform for software under the Office Business Applications brand. On 10 July 2012, Softpedia reported that Office is used by over a billion people worldwide, Office is produced in several versions targeted towards different end-users and computing environments. The original, and most widely used version, is the version, available for PCs running the Windows. The most current desktop version is Office 2016 for Windows and macOS, released on 22 September 2015 and 9 July 2015, more recently, Microsoft developed Office Mobile, which are free-to-use versions of Office applications for mobile devices. Microsoft also produces and runs Office Online, a version of core Office apps. Microsoft Word is a word processor available for Windows and macOS, Word is also included in some editions of the now discontinued Microsoft Works. The first version of Word, released in the autumn of 1983, was for the MS-DOS operating system and had the distinction of introducing the mouse to a broad population, Word 1.0 could be purchased with a bundled mouse, though none was required. Following the precedents of LisaWrite and MacWrite, Word for Macintosh attempted to add closer WYSIWYG features into its package, Word for Mac was released in 1985. Word for Mac was the first graphical version of Microsoft Word and its proprietary Doc format is a de facto standard, although Word 2007 deprecated this format in favor of Office Open XML, which was later standardized by Ecma International as an open format. Support for Portable Document Format and OpenDocument was first introduced in Word for Windows with Service Pack 2 for Word 2007, Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program that originally competed with the dominant Lotus 1-2-3, and eventually outsold it. It is available for the Windows and macOS platforms, Microsoft released the first version of Excel for the Mac OS in 1985, and the first Windows version in November 1987. Microsoft PowerPoint is a program for Windows and macOS. It is used to create slideshows, composed of text, graphics, and other objects, Microsoft Access is a database management system for Windows that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools. Microsoft Access stores data in its own based on the Access Jet Database Engine. It can also import or link directly to data stored in other applications, Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager

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Office 2004 for Mac
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Office 2004 for Mac is a version of Microsoft Office developed for Mac OS X. The software was written for PowerPC Macs, so Macs with Intel CPUs must run the program under Mac OS Xs Rosetta emulation layer. For this reason, it is not compatible with Mac OS X10.7, Office 2004 was replaced by its successor, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, which was developed as a universal binary to run natively on Intel Macs. However, Office 2008 did not include support for Visual Basic for Applications, Microsoft ultimately shipped support for Visual Basic in Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, which also dropped PowerPC support altogether. As of January 10,2012, support for Office 2004 for Mac has ended, Microsoft Office for Mac 2004 is available in three editions, Standard, Professional, and Student and Teacher. All three editions include Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, the Professional Edition adds Virtual PC. The Student and Teacher Edition cannot be upgraded, which means when a version of Office is released, people who purchased the Student. Microsoft Word is a processor which possesses a dominant market share in the word processor market. The new Office Open XML format was built into the version of Office for Mac. However, it is supported on Office 2004 with the help of a free conversion tool available from Microsoft. Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Word, it possesses a dominant market share. It was originally a competitor to the dominant Lotus 1-2-3, but it eventually outsold it, Microsoft Entourage is an email application. Its personal information management features include a calendar, address book, task list, note list, with Entourage 2004, Microsoft began offering a Project Center, which allows the user to create and organize projects. Information may come from within Entourage or outside the program and it too possesses a dominant market share. Movies, videos, sounds and music, as well as wordart, included with Office 2004 for Mac Professional Edition, Microsoft Virtual PC is a virtualization application which emulates Microsoft Windows operating systems on Mac OS X which are PowerPC-based. Images inserted into any Office 2004 application by using cut and paste or drag. Instead, the Windows user is told QuickTime and a TIFF decompressor are needed to see this picture, peter Clark of Geek Boys Blog presented one solution in December 2004. However, this issue persists in Office 2008, there is no support for editing right to left and bidirectional languages in Office 2004

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Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
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Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Mac OS X. It supersedes Office 2004 for Mac and is the Mac OS X equivalent of Office 2007, Office 2008 was developed by Microsofts Macintosh Business Unit and released on January 15,2008. Office 2008 was followed by Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 released on October 26,2010, requiring a Mac with an Intel processor, Office 2008 is also the last version to feature Entourage, which was replaced by Outlook in Office 2011. Office 2008 was originally slated for release in the half of 2007, however, it was delayed until January 2008. Office 2008 is the version of Office for Mac supplied as a Universal Binary. Unlike Office 2007 for Windows, Office 2008 was not offered as a public beta before its release date. Office 2008 for Mac includes the core programs currently included with Office 2004 for Mac, Entourage, Excel, PowerPoint. Office 2008 supports the new Office Open XML format, and defaults to saving all files in this format. On February 21,2008 Geoff Price revealed that the format conversion update for Office 2004 would be delayed until June 2008 in order to provide the first update to Office 2008, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications is not supported in this version. As a result, such Excel add-ins dependent on VBA, such as Solver, have not been bundled in the current release, in June 2008, Microsoft announced that it is exploring the idea of bringing some of the functionality of Solver back to Excel. In late August 2008, Microsoft announced that a new Solver for Excel 2008 was available as a download from Frontline Systems. However, Excel 2008 also lacks other functionality, such as Pivot Chart functionality, in May 2008, Microsoft announced that VBA will be making a return in the next version of Microsoft Office for Mac. AppleScript and the Open Scripting Architecture will still be supported, Office 2008 for Mac lacks feature parity with the Windows version. The lack of Visual Basic for Applications support in Excel makes it impossible to use macros programmed in VBA, Microsofts response is that adding VBA support in Xcode would have resulted in an additional two years added to the development cycle of Office 2008. Benchmarks suggest that the release of Office 2008 runs slower on Macs with PowerPC processors. A data-compatibility problem has also noted with CambridgeSofts chemical structure drawing program. Word 2008 does not retain the information when a chemical structure is copied from ChemDraw. If a structure is recopied from a Word 2008 document, and is pasted back into ChemDraw, there is no such problem in Word 2004 or X

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Microsoft Office for Mac 2011
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Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Mac OS X. It is the successor to Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and is comparable to Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows, Office 2011 was followed by Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac released on September 22,2015, requiring a Mac with a 64-bit Intel processor and OS X Yosemite or later. Microsoft Office 2011 includes more robust enterprise support and greater parity with the Windows edition. Its interface is now similar to Office 2007 and 2010 for Windows. Support for Visual Basic for Applications macros has returned after having been dropped in Office 2008, if you purchase the home premium version of Office for Mac you are not automatically allowed telephone support to query any problems with the VBA interface. There are however, apparently, according to Microsoft Helpdesk, some third party applications that can address problems with the VBA interface with Office for Mac. In addition, Office 2011 supports online tools such as OneDrive and Office Web Apps, allowing Mac. It also includes limited support for Apples high-density Retina displays, allowing the display of text and images. A new version of Outlook, written using Mac OS Xs Cocoa API and it replaces Entourage, which was included in Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac. Office for Mac 2011 has a number of limitations compared to Office 2010 for Windows and it does not support ActiveX controls, or OpenDocument Format. It also cannot handle attachments in Rich Text Format e-mail messages sent from Outlook for Windows and it also has several human language limitations, such as lack of support for right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew and automatic language detection. Microsoft does not support CalDAV and CardDAV in Outlook, so there is no way to sync directly Outlook through iCloud, two editions are available to the general public. Home & Student provides Word, Excel and PowerPoint, while Home & Business adds Outlook, Microsoft Messenger 8 is included with both editions, and Microsoft Communicator for Mac 2011, which communicates with Microsoft Lync Server, is available only to volume licensing customers. Office 2011 requires an Intel Mac running Mac OS X10.5.8 or higher, the Home & Student edition is available in a single license for one computer and a family pack for three computers. The Home & Business edition is available in a license for one computer. The Standard edition is available through Volume Licensing. The Academic edition was created for education students, staff and faculty. Office for Mac is also available as part of Microsofts Office 365 subscription programme, Microsoft announced Office 2011 in 2009

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Office 365
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Office 365 is the brand name Microsoft uses for a group of software and services subscriptions, which together provide productivity software and related services to subscribers. For consumers, the allows the use of Microsoft Office apps on Windows and macOS, provides storage space on Microsofts cloud storage service OneDrive. After a beta test that began in October 2010, Microsoft launched Office 365 on June 28,2011, as a successor to Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite, originally aimed at corporate users. Following the official launch of the service, Business Productivity Online Suite customers were given 12 months to plan, with the release of Office 2013, an updated version of the Office 365 platform was launched on February 27,2013. The server components were updated to their respective 2013 versions, and Microsoft expanded the Office 365 service with new plans, such as Small Business Premium, Midsize Premium, the plan is aimed at mainstream consumers, especially those who want to install Office on multiple computers. A University plan was introduced, targeted towards users going to post-secondary education. The ability to provide a link to a Yammer network from an Office 365 portal was introduced in June 2013, with heavier integration to be introduced in July 2013. On July 8,2013, Microsoft unveiled Power BI, a suite of intelligence and self-serve data mining tools for Office 365. Users will also be able to access and publish reports, in March 2014, Microsoft announced that it would rename the Home Premium plan to Home, and add a new Personal plan for single users, these new options officially launched on April 15,2014. In June 2014, the amount of OneDrive storage offered to Office 365 subscribers was increased to 1 terabyte from 20 GB, on October 27,2014, Microsoft announced that Office 365 subscribers would receive unlimited OneDrive storage. Due to abuse and a reduction in storage options implemented by Microsoft. In June 2016, Microsoft made Planner available for general release and it is considered to be a competitor to Trello and to other agile team collaboration cloud services. The Office 365 service consists of a number of products and services, the email service, task management, calendar application, and contacts manager included with business and enterprise Office 365 subscriptions are under the Outlook on the web brand. It includes Outlook Mail, Outlook Calendar, Outlook People, Microsoft introduced an email feature called Clutter with Office 365. Clutter remembers users preferences as it comes to the relevance and importance of emails and it analyses users pattern of behavior about email topics, if user keeps ignoring emails about a certain topic, Clutter moves those emails to a folder with the same name in Outlook. Users can enable and disable this feature by logging on to Office 365 portal, through SharePoints OneDrive for Business functionality, each user also receives 15 GB of online storage. Some plans for Office 365 also include access to the current versions of the Office desktop applications for both Windows and OS X for the period of the subscription, updates to the software are installed automatically, covering both security updates and major new versions of Office. If an Office 365 subscription lapses, the applications enter a read-only mode where editing functionality is disabled, full functionality is restored once a new subscription is purchased and activated

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Microsoft OneNote
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Microsoft OneNote is a computer program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It gathers users notes, drawings, screen clippings and audio commentaries, notes can be shared with other OneNote users over the Internet or a network. OneNote is available as a part of Microsoft Office and Windows 10 and it is also available as a free standalone application for Windows, macOS, Windows RT, Windows Phone, iOS and Android. A web-based version of OneNote is provided as part of OneDrive or Office Online, in OneNote, users can enter typed text via keyboard, create tables, and insert pictures. However, unlike a word processor, users can write anywhere on a virtually unbounded document window by just clicking there, also, users do not need to explicitly save their work – OneNote saves data automatically as the user works. OneNote saves information in pages organized into sections within notebooks, the interface provides an electronic version of a tabbed ring-binder, into which the user can directly make notes and gather material from other applications. OneNote notebooks collect, organize, and share possibly unpolished materials – as compared to word processors and wikis, users may add embedded multimedia recordings and web links. OneNote integrates search features and indexing into a graphics and audio repository. It can search images for embedded text-content and it also searches electronic ink annotations as text, and phonetically searches audio recordings on a text key. It can replay audio concurrently with notes taken during the recording and its multi-user capability allows offline paragraph-level editing with later synchronization and merging. This facilitates collaboration among members who are not always online. More than one person can work on the page at the same time—using OneNote as a shared whiteboard environment. On March 17,2014, Microsoft released the OneNote cloud service API that enables third-party application developers to integrate the service into their apps, the API runs on Microsoft’s globally available cloud, and sends data from applications into the users OneDrive. While the service stores the data in the OneNote notebook, it can also do things like running Optical Character Recognition on images, the text in the screenshot is made searchable using Optical Character Recognition. Email to OneNote, It enables users to send emails to the address me@onenote. com from pre-specified email IDs to have the contents of the saved to OneNote. A OneNote Notebook is stored as a folder of section files that have the. one extension, Microsoft upgraded the file format twice after it introduced OneNote 2003—first in OneNote 2007, then again in OneNote 2010. OneNote 2003 files can be opened by both OneNote 2007 and OneNote 2010 in read-only mode, and subsequently upgraded to the versions of the file format. OneNote 2010 can read and write OneNote 2007 file formats and it can also convert back and forth between the 2010 and the 2007 formats

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Microsoft Outlook
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Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an application, it also includes a calendar, task manager, contact manager, note taking, journal. Microsoft has also released applications for most mobile platforms, including iOS. Developers can also create their own software that works with Outlook. In addition, mobile devices can synchronize almost all Outlook data to Outlook Mobile, Microsoft Outlook has replaced Microsofts previous scheduling and mail program, Schedule+ and Exchange Client. Corporate Workgroup or CW mode, A full MAPI client with specific emphasis on Microsoft Exchange accounts, Outlook 2007 was available in retail stores at the end of January 2007. Forward Outlook email messages, contacts, appointments, and tasks as text messages and this makes it technologically detrimental for users to send mass email with Outlook, prompting spammers to use other e-mail clients. It was not provided as a component of Microsoft Office for Mac, the final version was Outlook for Mac 2001, which was fairly similar to Outlook 2000 and 2002 apart from being exclusively for Exchange users. Microsoft Entourage was introduced as an Outlook-like application for Mac OS in Office 2001, partial support for Exchange server became available natively in Mac OS X with Entourage 2004 Service Pack 2. Entourage is not directly equivalent to Outlook in terms of design or operation, rather, somewhat improved Exchange support was added in Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition. Entourage was replaced by Outlook for Mac 2011, which features greater compatibility and parity with Outlook for Windows than Entourage offered and it is the first native version of Outlook for macOS. Outlook 2011 initially supported Mac OS Xs Sync Services only for contacts, not events and it also does not have a Project Manager equivalent to that in Entourage. With Service Pack 1, published on April 12,2011, Outlook can now sync calendar, notes and tasks with Exchange 2007, on October 31,2014, Microsoft released Outlook for Mac with Office 365. Outlook for Mac 15.3 improves upon its predecessors with, Better performance and reliability as a result of a new threading model, a new modern user interface with improved scrolling and agility when switching between Ribbon tabs. Online archive support for searching Exchange archived mail, master Category List support and enhancements delivering access to category lists and sync between Mac, Microsoft Windows and OWA clients. Office 365 push email support for real-time email delivery, faster first-run and email download experience with improved Exchange Web Services syncing. In January 2015, Microsoft released Outlook for Phones and Tablets with Office 365 This was the first Outlook for these platforms with email, calendar, Outlook 2007 was the first Outlook to switch from Internet Explorer rendering engine to Microsoft Word 2007s. This means HTML and CSS items not handled by Word are no longer supported, on the other hand, HTML messages composed in Word look as they appeared to the author

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Microsoft Project
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Microsoft Project is a project management software product, developed and sold by Microsoft. It is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads. Microsoft Project was the companys third Microsoft Windows-based application, and within a couple of years of its introduction it became the dominant PC-based project management software and it is part of the Microsoft Office family but has never been included in any of the Office suites. It is available currently in two editions, Standard and Professional, Microsoft Projects proprietary file format is. mpp. Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server are the cornerstones of the Microsoft Office enterprise project management product, Project was an MS-DOS software application originally written in Microsoft C language for the IBM PC. The idea originated from the vision of Ron Bredehoeft, a former IBM S/E and this original vision was simple, express the recipe and all preparation for a breakfast of eggs Benedict in project management terms. Mr. Bredehoeft formed Microsoft Application Services during the birth of the application, alan M. Boyd wrote the specification and engaged a local Seattle company to develop the prototype. The first commercial version of Project was released for DOS in 1984, Microsoft bought all rights to the software in 1985 and released version 2. Version 3 for DOS was released in 1986, version 4 for DOS was the final DOS version, released in 1986. The first Windows version was released in 1990, and was labelled version 1 for Windows, in 1991 a Macintosh version was released. Development continued until Microsoft Project 4.0 for Mac in 1993, Microsoft Project 4 for the Mac included both 68k and PowerMac versions, Visual Basic for Applications and integration with Microsoft office 4.2 for the Mac. The Mac Business Unit never released a version of Project. Microsoft Project 4.0 was the first to use common Office menus, and it was the last 16-bit version. Microsoft Project 95 was the first 32-bit version and it was designed for Windows 95, Microsoft Project 98 was the first to use Tahoma font in the menu bars and to contain Office Assistant, like all Office 97 applications. It was the last version to run on Windows NT3.51, Project 98 SR-1 was a major service release addressing several issues in Project 98. Microsoft Project 2000 was the first to use personalized menus and to use Windows Installer-based setup interface, Project 2000 was also the last version to run on Windows 95. Microsoft Project 2002 was the first to contain mandatory product activation, like Office XP and it was also the last version to run on Windows NT4.0,98 and ME. Microsoft Project 2003 was the first to contain Windows XP-style icons, like all Office 2003 applications, versions were released in 1992,1993,1995,1998,2000,2003,2007,2010 and 2013

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Skype for Business
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Skype for Business is an instant-messaging client used with Skype for Business Server or with Skype for Business Online. They replace Windows Messenger, which ran with Microsoft Exchange Server, Skype for Business is enterprise software, compared to Skype, it has different features that target businesses. On 11 November 2014, Microsoft announced that in 2015, Skype for Business would replace Lync, the latest version of the communication software combines features of Lync and of the consumer software Skype. There are two user interfaces – organizations can switch their users from the default Skype for Business interface to the Skype for Business interface, Microsoft released Office Communicator 2007 to production on 28 July 2007 and launched it on 27 October 2007. It was followed by Office Communicator 2007 R2, released on 19 March 2009, Microsoft released the successor to Office Communicator, Lync 2010, on 25 January 2011. The full-featured desktop version of the client requires Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or newer, Lync 2010 was released for the Windows Phone, Android, and iOS platforms in December 2011. Lync 2010 was succeeded by Lync and Lync Server 2013, which were released in 2012, on 11 November 2014, Microsoft announced that Lync would be replaced by Skype for Business in 2015, which would combine features of Lync and the consumer Skype software. In April 2015 Microsoft officially launched Skype for Business, on 22 September 2015, Skype for Business 2016 was released alongside Office 2016. On 27 October 2016, the Skype for Business for Mac client was released and this makes communications more secure, as messages do not need to leave the corporate intranet, unlike with the Internet-based Windows Live Messenger. The server can be set to relay messages to other instant messaging networks, a number of client types are available for Microsoft Lync, including mobile clients. Uses SIP as the basis for its client communication protocol offers support for TLS and SRTP to encrypt and secure signaling, however, only the native Windows OS client and no other platform supports this feature at this time. The main new features of this version are the addition of real-time multi-client collaborative software capabilities, Lync implements these features as follows, collaboration through Whiteboard documents, where the participants have freedom to share text, drawing and graphical annotations. Collaboration through PowerPoint documents, where the participants can control and see presentations, as well as allow everybody to add text, drawing, polling lists, where Presenters can organize polls and all participants can vote and see results. Desktop sharing, usually by allowing participants to see and collaborate on a Windows screen Windows applications sharing, by allowing participants to see, all collaboration sessions get automatically defined as conferences, where clients can invite more contacts. Conference initiators can either promote participants to act as presenters or demote them to act as attendees and they can also define some basic policies about what presenters and attendees can see and do. Deeper details of policy permissions are defined at server level, following Microsofts acquisition of Skype in May 2011, the Lync and Skype platforms could be connected, but sometimes only after lengthy provisioning time. Lync uses a number of extensions to the SIP/SIMPLE instant-messaging protocol for some features, as with most instant-messaging platforms, non-Microsoft instant-messaging clients that have not implemented these publicly available extensions may not work correctly or have complete functionality. Lync supports federated presence and IM to other instant message services such as AOL, Yahoo, MSN

Microsoft Office
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Microsoft Office is an office suite of applications, servers, and services developed by Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on 1 August 1988, initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Over the years, Office applications h

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Microsoft Office 4.0, inside Windows 3.1

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Microsoft Office 2016 applications, from top left to bottom right: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

Software
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Computer software, or simply software, is that part of a computer system that consists of data or computer instructions, in contrast to the physical hardware from which the system is built. In computer science and software engineering, computer software is all information processed by computer systems, programs, computer software includes computer

Office suite
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Its names arose from the fact that it increases productivity, especially of individual office workers, from typists to knowledge workers, although its scope is now wider than that. Office suites, which word processing, spreadsheet, and relational database programs to the desktop in the 1980s, are the core example of productivity software. Some 78%

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Microsoft Word, an example of a word processor

Microsoft Word
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Microsoft Word is a word processor developed by Microsoft. It was first released on October 25,1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems, commercial versions of Word are licensed as a standalone product or as a component of Microsoft Office, Windows RT or the discontinued Microsoft Works suite. Microsoft Word Viewer and Office Online ar

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Microsoft Office Word 2013 on Windows 8

Microsoft Office 2007
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Microsoft Office 2007 is a version of Microsoft Office, a family of office suites and productivity software for Windows, developed and published by Microsoft. It was preceded by Office 2003 and succeeded by Office 2010, Office 2007 introduced a new graphical user interface called the Fluent User Interface, which uses ribbons and an Office menu inst

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Microsoft Office 2007 applications shown on Windows Vista (clockwise from top left: Excel, Word, OneNote, PowerPoint; these four programs make up the Home and Student Edition)

Office Open XML
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Office Open XML is a zipped, XML-based file format developed by Microsoft for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. The format was initially standardised by Ecma, and by the ISO, starting with Microsoft Office 2007, the Office Open XML file formats have become the default target file format of Microsoft Off

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Office Open XML Document

Macro (computer science)
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A macro in computer science is a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence should be mapped to a replacement output sequence according to a defined procedure. The mapping process that instantiates a macro use into a sequence is known as macro expansion. A facility for writing macros may be provided as part of an application or as

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jEdit 's macro editor

Microsoft Excel
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Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a programming language called Visual Basic for Applications. It has been a widely applied spreadsheet for these platforms, especially since version 5 in 1993. Excel forms part of Microsoft Office, M

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Microsoft Excel

Add-in
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In computing, a plug-in is a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program. When a program supports plug-ins, it enables customization, the common examples are the plug-ins used in web browsers to add new features such as search-engines, virus scanners, or the ability to use a new file type such as a new video form

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Mozilla Firefox displaying a list of installed plug-ins

Dynamic-link library
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Dynamic-link library is Microsofts implementation of the shared library concept in the Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems. These libraries usually have the file extension DLL, OCX, or DRV, the file formats for DLLs are the same as for Windows EXE files – that is, Portable Executable for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, and New Executable for 16

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Dynamic link library

Microsoft PowerPoint
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Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program currently developed by Microsoft, for use on both Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating systems. PowerPoint, initially named Presenter, was created by Forethought Inc, Microsofts version of PowerPoint was officially launched on May 22,1990, as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. PowerPoint

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PowerPoint for Mac 2016

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Microsoft PowerPoint

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A PowerPoint presentation in progress.

Microsoft Access
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Microsoft Access is a database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools. It is a member of the Microsoft Office suite of applications, included in the Professional, Microsoft Access stores data in its own format based on the Access Jet

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Microsoft Office Access 2013 running on Windows 8

Visual Basic for Applications
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Visual Basic for Applications enables building user-defined functions, automating processes and accessing Windows API and other low-level functionality through dynamic-link libraries. It supersedes and expands on the abilities of earlier application-specific macro programming languages such as Words WordBasic. It can be used to control aspects of t

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Visual Basic for Applications

Microsoft Publisher
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However, it has a relatively small share of the desktop publishing market, which is dominated by Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress. Publishers proprietary file format is supported in LibreOffice since February 2013, corel Draw X4 features read only support. Adobes PageMaker software saves files with a. pub extension but the two files are incompatible

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Microsoft Publisher 2013 running on Windows 8

XPS Document
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Open XML Paper Specification is an open specification for a page description language and a fixed-document format. Microsoft developed it as the XML Paper Specification, in June 2009, Ecma International adopted it as international standard ECMA-388. It is an XML-based specification, based on a new print path, in Windows 8. xps was replaced with the

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Formats

XML
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In computing, Extensible Markup Language is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. The W3Cs XML1.0 Specification and several other related specifications—all of them free open standards—define XML, the design goals of XML emphasize simplicity, generality, an

MSDN
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The relationship management is situated in assorted media, web sites, newsletters, developer conferences, trade media, blogs and DVD distribution. The life cycle of the ranges from legacy support through evangelizing potential offerings. The main website, and most of its constituent applications below are available in 56 or more languages, MSDN Lib

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MSDN logo, 2001–2009

Microsoft
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Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup, as of 2016, it was the worlds largest software maker by revenue, and one of the wor

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Front lobby entrance of building 17, one of the largest buildings on Microsoft's main campus in Redmond

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Paul Allen (l.) and Bill Gates (r.) on October 19, 1981, in a sea of PCs after signing a pivotal contract. IBM called Microsoft in July 1980 inquiring about programming languages for its upcoming PC line; after failed negotiations with another company, IBM gave Microsoft a contract to develop the OS for the new line of PCs.

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Bill Gates giving his deposition in 1998 for the United States v. Microsoft trial.

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In 1996, Microsoft released Windows CE, a version of the operating system meant for personal digital assistants and other tiny computers.

History of Microsoft Office
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OneNote 2003 is included in any of the Office 2003 editions. FrontPage 2003, Visio 2003 and Project 2003 were also sold separately, Project 2010 and Visio 2010 are available only as a single/individual product. Office Customization Tool is available only on volume edition of Standard 2010, in Microsoft Office folder one may found one or more sub-fo

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StarOffice

Microsoft Windows
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Microsoft Windows is a metafamily of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft. It consists of families of operating systems, each of which cater to a certain sector of the computing industry with the OS typically associated with IBM PC compatible architecture. Active Windows families include Windows NT, Windows Embedde

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Screenshot of Windows 10, showing the Action Center and Start Menu

Microsoft Office 95
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Microsoft Office 95, also known as Microsoft Office for Windows 95, released on 24 August 1995, was a version of Microsoft Office designed specifically for Windows 95, succeeding Office 4.3. Office 95 was replaced by Office 97 on 19 November 1996, Microsoft Office 95 includes six applications, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Schedule+ and Binder.

Microsoft Office 97
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Microsoft Office 97 is a major milestone release of Microsoft Office, which includes hundreds of new features and improvements over its predecessor. It introduced Command Bars, a paradigm in which menus and toolbars were made similar in capability. It also featured natural language systems and sophisticated grammar checking and it was published on

Microsoft Office 2000
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Microsoft Office 2000 is a release of Microsoft Office, an office suite developed by Microsoft for the Windows family of operating systems. Office 2000 was released to manufacturing on March 29,1999 and it is the successor to Office 97 and the predecessor to Office XP. Additionally, Office 2000 introduces PhotoDraw, a raster and vector imaging prog

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Microsoft Office 2000 running on Windows 95

Microsoft Office XP
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Microsoft Office XP is an office suite created and distributed by Microsoft for the Windows operating system. Office XP was released to manufacturing on March 5,2001 and was made available to retail on May 31,2001. It is the successor to Office 2000 and the predecessor to Office 2003, with Office XP, Microsoft incorporated several features to addre

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Office XP running on Windows 8

Microsoft Office 2003
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Microsoft Office 2003 is an office suite developed and distributed by Microsoft for its Windows operating system. Office 2003 was released to manufacturing on August 19,2003 and it was the successor to Office XP and the predecessor to Office 2007. New features in Office 2003 include information rights management, new features, improved support for

Microsoft Office 2010
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Microsoft Office 2010 is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. Office 2010 was released to manufacturing on April 15,2010 and it is the successor to Microsoft Office 2007 and the predecessor to Microsoft Office 2013. Research and development of Office 2010 began in 2006, before the release of its predecessor, O

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Microsoft Office 2010 programs on Windows 7 clockwise from top left: Word, Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint; these four programs make up the Home and Student Edition.

Microsoft Office 2013
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Microsoft Office 2013 is a version of Microsoft Office, a productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. It is the successor to Microsoft Office 2010 and the predecessor to Microsoft Office 2016 and it includes extended file format support, user interface updates and support for touch among its new features. Office 2013 is suitable for IA-32 and x64 sys

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Microsoft Office 2013 apps from top left to bottom right: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote which collectively make up the Home and Student edition.

Microsoft Office 2016
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Microsoft Office 2016 is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite, succeeding both Office 2013 and Office for Mac 2011. It was released on macOS on 9 July 2015 and on Microsoft Windows on 22 September 2015 for Office 365 subscribers, mainstream support ends on 13 October 2020, and extended support ends on 14 October 2025. The perpetuall

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Clockwise from top left: Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint

Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition
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Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition is a version of Microsoft Office for the classic Mac OS, unveiled at Macworld Expo/San Francisco on January 6,1998. It introduced the Internet Explorer 4.0 browser and Outlook Express, Office 98 was re-engineered by Microsofts Macintosh Business Unit to satisfy customers desire for more Mac-like software. It in

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The box for Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition

Microsoft Office 2001
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Microsoft Office 2001 is a suite of productivity software for Mac OS8, Mac OS9, or the Classic environment in Mac OS X. It was developed by Microsoft and announced on September 13,2000 before its release on October 11,2000, as with previous versions of Microsoft Office, Office 2001 includes Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. It also includes, for the fir

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The packaging for Microsoft Office 2001

Microsoft Office v. X
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Microsoft Office is an office suite of applications, servers, and services developed by Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on 1 August 1988, initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Over the years, Office applications h

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Microsoft Office 4.0, inside Windows 3.1

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Microsoft Office

Office 2004 for Mac
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Office 2004 for Mac is a version of Microsoft Office developed for Mac OS X. The software was written for PowerPC Macs, so Macs with Intel CPUs must run the program under Mac OS Xs Rosetta emulation layer. For this reason, it is not compatible with Mac OS X10.7, Office 2004 was replaced by its successor, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, which was dev

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
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Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Mac OS X. It supersedes Office 2004 for Mac and is the Mac OS X equivalent of Office 2007, Office 2008 was developed by Microsofts Macintosh Business Unit and released on January 15,2008. Office 2008 was followed by Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 released on Oc

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011
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Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Mac OS X. It is the successor to Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and is comparable to Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows, Office 2011 was followed by Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac released on September 22,2015, requiring a Mac with a 64-bit Intel processor and OS

Office 365
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Office 365 is the brand name Microsoft uses for a group of software and services subscriptions, which together provide productivity software and related services to subscribers. For consumers, the allows the use of Microsoft Office apps on Windows and macOS, provides storage space on Microsofts cloud storage service OneDrive. After a beta test that

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Office 365 retail pack

Microsoft OneNote
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Microsoft OneNote is a computer program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It gathers users notes, drawings, screen clippings and audio commentaries, notes can be shared with other OneNote users over the Internet or a network. OneNote is available as a part of Microsoft Office and Windows 10 and it is also available a

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OneNote 2016 running on OS X

Microsoft Outlook
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Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an application, it also includes a calendar, task manager, contact manager, note taking, journal. Microsoft has also released applications for most mobile platforms, including iOS. Developers can also

Microsoft Project
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Microsoft Project is a project management software product, developed and sold by Microsoft. It is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads. Microsoft Project was the companys third Microsoft Windows-based application, and within a couple

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Microsoft Project 2007 showing a simple Gantt chart

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Microsoft Project 2013 screenshot, showing a blank project

Skype for Business
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Skype for Business is an instant-messaging client used with Skype for Business Server or with Skype for Business Online. They replace Windows Messenger, which ran with Microsoft Exchange Server, Skype for Business is enterprise software, compared to Skype, it has different features that target businesses. On 11 November 2014, Microsoft announced th